The Role of Independent Cinema in the Age of On-Demand Culture

对独立电影院展览的调查需要对展览做法进行深入分析，同时对发生这些做法的复杂和不断变化的背景框架--文化、历史、工业、政治和监管--有广泛的了解。可能的研究问题是：点播文化、英国退欧和大流行后的挑战如何塑造了独立影院展映的商业战略和规划实践？资助者和监管机构的政策和优先事项--主要是BFI的2033战略及其电影观众网络--在哪些方面影响独立电影院的运营？现有政策机制在支持该部门方面的有效性如何？如何改进这些机制？独立电影院扮演着什么样的文化角色？这种角色如何才能保持下去？

This investigation of independent cinema exhibition demands in-depth analysis of exhibition practices alongside a broad understanding of the complex and shifting contextual frameworks - cultural, historical, industrial, political and regulatory - within which those practices take place. Likely research questions are: How have the challenges of on-demand culture, Brexit and the post-pandemic shaped the business strategies and programming practices of independent cinema exhibition? In what ways do the policies and priorities of funders and regulators - centrally the BFI's 2033 strategy and its Film Audience Network - affect the operations of independent cinemas? How effective are existing policy mechanisms at supporting the sector, and how might they be improved? What cultural role do independent cinemas play and how might that role be sustained?